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Custom Timber Frame Homes - Timber Frame Home Builders

Custom Timber Frame Homes - Timber Frame Home Builders

The most important consideration in ensuring the durability of energy-efficient wood-frame houses is to utilize design
features and construction practices that keep wood as dry as possible and promote drying if the wood gets wet. Experience
has shown that the moisture-caused problems plaguing new houses can be largely avoided by:
 Employing design features and construction practices that promote water-shedding;
 Installing wood siding on furring strips;
 Back- and end priming exterior wood products;
 Finishing exterior wood products with opaque, film-forming coatings of high permeability;
 Designing wood-frame walls to dry either to the inside or the outside;
 Applying a continuous vapor retarder to the warm side of walls and ceilings;
 Utilizing kiln-dried framing lumber;
 Using caulks, sealants, gaskets, and tapes to seal potential air leakage paths;
 Using design features and construction practices that limit migration of soil moisture into basements and crawl
spaces;

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